Carmen Quesada

Carmen Elena Quesada Santamaría is a Costa Rican politician and teacher. She joined the Social Christian Unity Party as a teenager and later, the Libertarian Movement. In 2009 and 2010, she occupied a seat in the Directive Board of the Atlantic Basin Ports and Economical Development Administrative Board. In the 2010 and 2014 Costa Rican general election, she contested as a candidate for the Legislative Assembly, being elected as a deputy representing Limón Province for the 2014–2018 administration. On 2 September 2015, she left the Libertarian Movement, remaining as an independent for the rest of the term. As a deputy, she was a member of the investigative commission for the Panama Papers and elected First Secretary of the Legislative Director for the 2017–2018 period.